The Architecture of Drawing: Sketchbooks + Paintings + Models Errol Barron FAIA and Jacob Brillhart AIA

This exhibition illustrates and examines the role of hand drawing and painting in the digital age by two architects of two generations.  Drawn from more than 100 sketch books used almost daily and especially during travel, the exhibition considers the tradition of drawing as both a recording device and as a tool for thinking about design. Errol Barron and Jacob Brillhart, who both teach drawing and design in their respective institutions, Tulane University and the University of Miami, believe that drawings done digitally and by hand are not mutually exclusive activities but deeply complementary ones. The joint exhibition of how observation influences design will be comprised of sketchbooks, associated paintings, design drawings and architectural models that explore the interrelationships of drawing, painting, and architecture.

When: On View 2/25 – 4/3; Opening Reception: Friday, February 25th, 2011, 7-10pm

Where: ARTCENTER  / South Florida, 800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL 33139

About the exhibitors:

Jacob Brillhart

AIA

Jacob Brillhart has built his career as an architect, painter and professor of architecture. He is currently a full-time Lecturer at the University of Miami School of Architecture where he has taught all levels of Design Studio, Freehand Drawing, and Mechanical Drawing. He is also an integral teacher of the Rome program and leads students in drawing and design studios throughout Europe, where he continually conducts drawing research. In the Spring of 2010, Brillhart served as the Favrot Visiting Professor at the Tulane School of Architecture.

Brillhart is currently working on a new book Voyage Le Corbusier – Visual Thinking in the Digital Age and a series of residential projects in Miami.

Errol Barron

FAIA

Errol Barron is a senior member of the faculty and the Favrot Professor of Architecture at the Tulane School of Architecture. He is a graduate of Tulane and Yale Universities and has taught a wide range of courses including Theory, Design Studio, Professional Concerns, Introduction to Architecture for non majors and Drawing. He has lectured about his work at many institutions and architecture schools such as University of California at Berkeley, University of Iowa, University of Tennessee, University of Glasgow, Louisiana State University, South West Louisiana University, Drury University, University of Texas at Arlington, and Tulane University.

Barron is currently working on three large residential projects in Greece, and a new book on New Orleans.

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